Being inundated with e-mails from around the world and courted by the media seemed to inflate his ego and confusion in equal measure.

After landing the role, she allows her growing accomplishments to inflate her ego, and she begins acting rudely and bossing around her sisters.

And they're clever enough not to inflate their egos like certain of their male contemporaries.

This doesn't seem to have inflated his ego, which no doubt has kept his decision-making balanced.

You pay these mercenaries wages that are at least twice what they are worth, you inflate their egos, and then leave half of them on the bench.